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As a leader in cancer research, Karmanos is able to offer patients access to innovative treatments and clinical trials that are often times not available anywhere else.
To offer hope and longer life to patients with all types of cancer, Karmanos offers the latest types of therapy through our clinical trials program. Through clinical trials, we are creating new knowledge about how therapies fight cancer and provide national leadership in testing these new therapies.
We understand that cancer is a complex disease that demands complex care. We provide each patient with a dynamic, carefully constructed treatment plan focused on their specific cancer and their unique needs.
We listen to you to design a plan that provides you with respect, compassionate care and is responsive to your emotional and practical concerns.
Cancer Control
Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University (WSU) researchers investigated how synchronized behavior differed between Black and White patients when having cancer treatment discussions with health care specialists. Lauren Hamel, Ph.D., co-program leader of the Population Studies and Disparities Research (PSDR) Program at Karmanos, associate professor of communication and behavioral oncology at WSU School of Medicine; Susan Eggly, Ph.D., member of PSDR, professor in the Department of Oncology at WSU; Louis Penner, Ph.D. and Terrance Albrecht, Ph.D., professor emeriti at WSU; and additional research colleagues used a novel software to measure nonverbal synchrony in video recording of patients meeting with their physicians. Their research was published in Cancer Control.
Read the study here.